Why We Fight: Prelude to War
FDR Presidential Library
WarEducation
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FDR Presidential Library
Video 44
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Frank Capra. Prelude To War (Frank Capra) The introductory film to the series portrays the events leading up to the war: Japanese attacks on Manchuria, the rise of Fascism in Germany and Italy and the lack of military preparedness in the United States. Prelude to War won the Academy Award for best documentary in 1942.
- Archive
- Internet Archive, in FedFlix: US government films
- Licence or status
- CC0 1.0, as the Internet Archive states it.
- Credit
- FDR Presidential Library
- Language
- English
- Who can watch
- The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed